Plump vs Broad - What's the difference?
plump | broad | Related terms |
To grow ; to swell out.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
* Spectator
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
* Fuller
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
To give a plumper (kind of vote).
To give (a vote), as a plumper.
(used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
* (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
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Fat.
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
Wide in extent or scope.
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* Bishop Porteus
Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.
* John Locke
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
* D. Daggett
* E. Everett
Plain; evident.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
* Shakespeare
(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
(of an accent) Strongly regional.
(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
(US) A woman or girl.
(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
As adjectives the difference between plump and broad
is that plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight while broad is wide in extent or scope.As nouns the difference between plump and broad
is that plump is a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd while broad is a prostitute, a woman of loose morals.As a verb plump
is to grow plump; to swell out.As an adverb plump
is directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.plump
English
Verb
(en verb)- Her cheeks have plumped .
- Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
- to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
- to plump a stone into water
- "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out
Adjective
(en-adj)- The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* See alsoAdverb
Noun
(en noun)- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.
References
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English
Adjective
(er)- three feet broad
- the broad expanse of ocean
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- broad and open day
- a broad mixture of falsehood
- The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
- in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way
- a broad hint
- as broad and general as the casing air
- a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour
Antonyms
* * (Regarding body width) * (Not palatalized)Derived terms
* breadth * broaden * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * broadscale * broad strokes * broadsword * broad church * broadcloth * broad agreementNoun
(en noun)- Who was that broad I saw you with?
- (Knight)